Manal Kara is a self-taught Moroccan-American artist and poet based in Gary, IN and Ridgewood, NY. They work across sculpture, installation, photography, video, and text, using an eco-semiotic framework to elaborate a poetics of the disenfranchised, dislodge hegemonic ontologies, and devise new ways of theorizing the world. Recent solo exhibitions include The Wild Thing Rides Again, Hair+Nails, Minneapolis (2024); Syntax-Semantics Interface, M. LeBlanc, Chicago (2024); Sacred Topologies, Deli Gallery, New York (2023); Hypothèses, Pangée, Montréal (2022); Conjectures, Nazarian/Curcio, Los Angeles (2022); and Xylem & Phlöem, No Place, Columbus (2021). They have attended residencies at Monson Arts, Bed-Stuy Art Residency, Eighth House, Shandaken: Storm King, ACRE, Ox-Bow, September Spring at the Kesey Farm, and Project Freewill. Their poems have appeared in various print and online publications including Changes, The Recluse, and Poem-a-Day. They co-lead the ceramics department at ACRE Residency and sometimes teach poetry workshops at Poetry Field School.